Release Date: 01 April 2012
Label: Hyperion Records Ltd
Packaging Type: Brilliant Case (Jewel Case size, Holds 2 CDs)
No of Units: 2
Barcode: 034571120720
Genres: Classical Orchestral
Description
From the eleventh century, Venetian mariners gathered together once each year to offer prayers to San Nicolò, the patron saint of sailors, asking for his continued protection. Initially the service was a simple benediction in which the Adriatic Sea was blessed with holy water. By the late-sixteenth century the ceremony had evolved into one of the most lavish and important dates in the Venetian calendar. Ascension Day now launched a large spring festival which was headed by the symbolic wedding of Venice to the Adriatic—the Sposalizio.
Robert King and his serried ranks of instrumentalists and singers recreate this glorious event in the grandest style. Giovanni Gabrieli's twenty-two-part Sonata (his largest-scale instrumental work), Andrea Gabrieli's 'Battle' Canzona, the church bells of Venice, fanfares for trumpets and drums, the massive sixteen-part madrigal Udite, chiari—the catalogue of riches goes on …
Tracklisting
The Gesualdo Six / Owain Park
Steven Osborne
Stephen Hough, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra / Sakari Oramo
Steven Isserlis, Philharmonia Orchestra / Paavo Jarvi
Stephen Hough; The Halle; Mark Elder
Nicky Spence; Julius Drake
The Orlando Consort
Alina Ibragimova, Cedric Tiberghien
Various artists
Alexander Lonquich; Munchener Kammerorchester; Daniel Giglberger
Gidon Kremer; Keith Jarrett; Tatjana Grindenko; Staatsorchester Stuttgart; The 12 Cellists of the B
Guido Mancusi, Budafok Dohnanyi Orchestra
Das Klarinettenduo, Stuttgarter Kammerorchester, Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrucken Kaierslau
Stephen Hough, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra / Sakari Oramo
Stephen Hough; The Halle; Mark Elder
Hans-Jurg Strub; Wurttembergische Philharmonie Reutlingen; Christian Erny
